载流子色散型硅基CMOS光子器件

为了实现硅基单片光电子集成器件的实用化,介绍了采用P-I-N、双极型场效应晶体管、金属氧化物半导体和PN结结构的载流子色散型硅基CMOS光子器件的发展状况和特点,并汇报了硅基CMOS光子器件的设计和制作方面的工作.利用商业的CMOS工艺线制作的器件获得了较好的结果,光调制器消光比约18 dB,1×2光开关消光比约21 dB,谐振环的消光比8～12 dB.采用CMOS技术研制硅基光子器件,将能使集成光子学的发展上一个新的台阶.     

载流子色散型硅基CMOS光子器件

为了实现硅基单片光电子集成器件的实用化,介绍了采用P-I-N、双极型场效应晶体管、金属氧化物半导体和PN结结构的载流子色散型硅基CMOS光子器件的发展状况和特点,并汇报了硅基CMOS光子器件的设计和制作方面的工作.利用商业的CMOS工艺线制作的器件获得了较好的结果,光调制器消光比约18 dB,1×2光开关消光比约21 dB,谐振环的消光比8～12 dB.采用CMOS技术研制硅基光子器件,将能使集成光子学的发展上一个新的台阶.     

基于光栅辅助微环结构的高斜率Fano谐振器

在集成光学回路中,相较于对称的洛伦兹线型,非对称的Fano谐振线型能实现光传输强度的急剧改变,从而有效提升光开关、调制器和传感器的灵敏度.提出了一种基于光栅辅助微环结构的Fano谐振器.该谐振器采用绝缘体上硅材料,通过在跑道微环内加入两组波导光栅结构实现Fano谐振.基于传输矩阵理论,推导了该谐振器的传输谱线,并分析了器件中不同结构参数对Fano谱线谐振峰位置、凹陷深度和斜率的影响,实现了最高斜率为-299.67 dB/nm、凹陷深度为9 dB、损耗为6.4 dB的Fano谐振谱线.该Fano谐振器具有斜率高、尺寸小、制造简单等优势,能广泛应用于光开关、光传感和光探测等领域.     

硅基光波导开关技术综述

硅基光波导开关技术是公认的低成本光交换技术,在电信网络、数据中心和高性能计算领域中都具有非常广泛的应用前景.本文系统综述了近年来硅基光波导开关技术研究取得的主要进展,首先对马赫-曾德尔干涉仪型、微环谐振型和微电子机械系统驱动波导型三种硅基光波导开关技术进行了介绍,并对不同原理的光开关技术的应用场景进行了总结;然后讨论了影响大端口光开关性能的关键技术,特别着重于拓扑架构、无源器件和光电封装等方面;最后对硅基光波导开关技术的技术挑战和研究方向进行了展望,其对未来硅基全光交换技术的实用化具有指导性意义.     

基于半导体材料微纳波导全光逻辑门的研究进展

全光逻辑门是全光计算以及全光信号处理系统中关键的光子器件.随着互补金属氧化物半导体(COMS)工艺的发展,基于半导体材料微纳波导全光逻辑门已经成为集成光学领域中的重要方向;尤其是硅基光子集成器件在近些年成为了国际研究热点.文章主要对基于绝缘体上的硅(SOD)和Ⅲ-Ⅴ族化合物材料不同波导结构(马赫-曾德尔干涉仪(Mach-Zehnder interferometer)微环谐振腔和条形波导结构)的全光逻辑门的研究进展进行了介绍,并且在器件的工作速率和功耗方面,分别对上述基于SOI和Ⅲ-Ⅴ族化合物材料三种不同波导结构的全光逻辑门进行了分析和比较.     

硅基混合表面等离子体纳米光波导及集成器件

总结并展望了硅基混合表面等离子体纳米光波导及集成器件方面的理论和实验研究工作。首先介绍了几种硅基混合表面等离子体纳米光波导结构,其尺寸可小至100 nm以下,而传播长度达100μm量级;其次介绍了基于硅基混合表面等离子体纳米光波导的功分器、偏振分束器和谐振器等集成器件,其尺寸为亚微米量级;最后探讨了硅基混合表面等离子体纳米光波导与硅纳米线光波导的耦合及对其进行增益补偿。     

具有皮秒量级开关窗口的光波导微环谐振器

提出一种可以产生皮秒量级开关窗口的光波导微环谐振器,对其设计与性能进行了分析和研究。采用多环层叠结构来设计微环谐振器的传输特性曲线,利用特性曲线的非线性特征,在正弦电压的作用下改变材料的折射率可获得一个较窄的开关窗口。采用耦合矩阵理论研究了系统的调制特性以及开关窗口特性,分析了开关窗口宽度和消光比与驱动电压的关系。研究结果表明,10 GHz驱动电压情况下,开关窗口宽度、消光比和插入损耗可以分别优于10 ps,40 dB和1 dB。只需要电的控制信号而无需高质量的光控制脉冲,且具有工作速率高、结构简单、消光比高、传输损耗小和工作电压低等特点。     

基于硅基光子器件的Fano共振研究进展

硅基光子技术的发展为新型微纳光学功能器件和片上系统提供了高可靠、高精度的实现手段.采用硅基光子技术构建的具有连续(准连续)模式微腔与离散模式的微腔耦合产生的Fano共振现象得到了广泛关注.Fano共振光谱在共振波长附近具有不对称且尖锐的谐振峰,传输光的强度在共振波长附近从0突变为1,该机制可显著提高硅基光开关、探测器、传感器,以及光非互易性全光信号处理的性能.本综述分析了Fano共振的一般数学表述,总结了当前硅基光子微腔耦合产生Fano共振的理论模型研究现状,讨论了不同类型硅光器件实现Fano共振的方法,比较各种方案优劣及适用场合,梳理了Fano共振在全光信号处理方面的应用研究情况.最后探讨存在的一些问题及未来可能的相关研究方向.     

微环光开关的偏振相关损耗研究（英文）

提出一种可同时支持横电模和横磁模传输的微环光开关设计方法,可用于构建波长平面内的偏振无关交换芯片.为了实现微环光开关的偏振无关传输,横电模和横磁模应工作在同一谐振波长且在该波长处有相同的群折射率,据此采用MODE Solutions优化基于硅绝缘体波导结构的微环参数,建立Interconnect芯片仿真模型,考察微环光开关芯片的透射特性和传输特性.经过优化设计,微环光开关的偏振相关损耗低至0.13dB,光脉冲传输时延为42.5ps.研究表明,当微环长度偏离优化值约5nm时,偏振相关损耗就会增加到1dB,其中热光效应可以用来弥补工艺偏差,温度每变化1 K,则可弥补2.2nm的环长偏差.     

纳秒量级开关时间的全光纤磁光开关

采用磁光晶体薄膜、半波片、偏振分束器、偏振合束器和高速法拉第转子等元器件研制了一种具有新型光路的1×2全光纤磁光开关,以用于全光网络通信. 采用雪崩晶体管设计和制作了多种纳秒脉冲发生器,用于驱动法拉第转子中的微型螺线管. 对螺线管的尺寸和结构布局进行了优化设计,并分析螺线管的磁场强度和自感系数等性能参量,以提高磁光开关的开关速度. 磁光开关的性能测试结果表明,纳秒脉冲上升时间为2～5 ns、脉冲宽度为6～12 ns、脉冲幅值为30～150 V. 磁光开关的插入损耗为1.55 dB,串扰为23.69 dB,消光比为-23.69 dB,开关时间为100～400 ns. 该全光纤磁光开关的开关时间已达到纳秒量级.     

Design and Performance Analysis of High Speed Optical Binary Code Converter using Micro-Ring Resonator

The present paper describes various attractive logical code conversions using optical micro-ring resonator. We have proposed an all-optical switching activity using silicon waveguide based micro-ring resonator under low-power operation through two-photon absorption effect. The different properties of the optical switch are analyzed through numerical simulation. We have also proposed and described all-optical binary-to-octal, binary-coded-decimal-to-excess-3 and binary-to-Gray-code converter circuits by this proposed architecture. Numerical simulation results for code conversion verifying the proposed methods are given in this paper. We identify a combination of feasible ring radius and detuning through numerical simulation that allows analyzing the system performance of the scheme.     

Design of ring resonator based all optical switch for logic and arithmetic operations – A theoretical study

In this paper, a general analysis for non-linear micro-ring resonator as all optical switch is discussed in a vertically coupled GaAs–AlGaAs micro-ring resonator by carrier injection. The ring resonator is optically pumped, which results in temporal shift of resonant wavelength by refractive index change due to carrier injection. A green laser as optical pump beam is used to shift resonant wavelength 1.5 nm of the ring resonator. Simulation, analysis and overall transfer function of single ring as well as cascaded micro-ring resonator (MRR) is studied. A single circuit, consisting of three MRRs, capable to perform all the two input sixteen logic operations is studied and reported. The same circuit can also act as half adder/subtractor and single bit data comparator.     

一种基于金刚石多层波导结构微环谐振器的仿真分析

提出了一种以金刚石新型材料为芯层的单微环谐振器模型.谐振器的纵切面采用五层脊形波导结构,中间一层设定为金刚石,上下两侧分别是SiO_2和As_2S_3,即As_2S_3-SiO_2-金刚石-SiO_2-As_2S_3.设置操作波长为1550 nm,依据耦合膜理论和微环谐振理论,利用Comsol软件仿真模拟了单直波导纵切面、直波导和环形波导耦合区的纵切面以及微环在谐振波长为1543 nm时的场强分布,及直波导和环形波导耦合区间距改变时微环的场强分布和传输特性.在此基础上,依据传输矩阵法讨论了微环的品质因数、耦合系数变化对输出光谱的影响,并对微环损耗进行了讨论.结果表明:以金刚石为芯层的微环谐振器具有良好的光学特性,本结构在谐振波长为1543 nm时谐振峰值达到了-12 dB以上,品质因数达到了1.54×10~5,在耦合系数为0.01时,自由光谱范围约为40 nm.     

Integrated CMOS system and thermally actuated optical switch for wavelength modulation/lock in communication network

The advancement of communication technology and growth of internet traffic have continuously driven the fast evolution of networks. Compared to the traditional optoelectronic switch, all-optical switch provides high throughput, rich routing functionalities, and excellent flexibility for rapid signal exchange in fiber optical network. Among various all-optical switches, thermal actuated ring switch provides the advantages of high accuracy, easy actuation, and reasonable switching speed. However, when scale up, thermal ring switch may encounter issues related to fabrication error, non-accurate wavelength response, and large terminal numbers in the control circuit. In this research, we propose the employment of an integrated CMOS control circuit to compensate the fabrication error and tune as well as lock the wavelength in a thermal-actuated ring-type optical switch through a frequency modulation scheme. Additional functionalities can also be added in this circuit by tailoring externally the roundtrip loss or coupling constants of the ring. The design concept can be easily scaled up for large array optical switch system without much change in the terminal numbers thanks to the three-dimensional hierarchy of control circuit design, which effectively reduces the terminal numbers into the cubic root of the total control unit numbers. The integrated circuit has been designed, simulated, as well as fabricated, and demonstrated a decent performance with free spectral range (FSR) equal to 1.5 nm at 1534 nm and very accurate wavelength modulation to 0.3 nm within 0.01 nm fluctuation for thermal actuated ring type optical switch.     

Demonstration of an all-optical switching operation using an optical fiber grating coupler

An optical fiber grating coupler (FGC) is a fused optical fiber coupler with a tapered region in which refractive index-modulated gratings are written. In the FGC, the light with specific wavelength satisfying the Bragg condition of the grating can be dropped to one output port and other lights are transmitted to another output port when lights with various wavelengths are launched into the input port. The FGC can operate as an all-optical switch by controlling the Bragg wavelength of the grating using a third order nonlinear optical effect caused by a control light that are launched with a signal light. In this paper, an all-optical switching operation due to a third order nonlinear optical effect in an FGC is first demonstrated for a signal light with 1.55 μm-wavelength to be changed from one port of the FGC to another one by the 720 W peak of a control light from a Nd:YAG laser with 1.06 μm-wavelength. The switching efficiency obtained was 7%. It was clarified that a longer pulse length of the control light compared to the grating length is required to obtain a large Bragg wavelength shift for the switching. It was also clarified that the Bragg wavelength shift is caused by a third order nonlinear effect and a photothermal effect. A contribution of the photothermal effect was estimated. We also estimated the switching efficiency for pump power in the FGC switch.     

Optical bistability in a single-bus InGaAs micro-ring resonator array

In this paper, we investigate the optical bistability induced by optical nonlinearity in a compact parallel array of micro-ring resonators with radius of 5 μm. Due to the nature of perfect light confinement in this structure, resonance and accumulation process in a ring resonator and optical nonlinear effects, are observable even at small optical power (a few milliwatts). Different optical applications such as all-optical switching, optical memory devices, logic gates and modulators are possible, due to optical bistability in a ring resonator. Using alternative semiconductor compounds, instead of silicon that have weak nonlinear optical properties, we improve the performance of ring-resonator based devices. Here we use a polymer cladding layer with negative thermo-optic coefficient. Using this structure we can eliminate the temperature created nonlinearity which is a very slow process. Therefore, the switching speed increases from a few MHz to several tens of GHz. By plotting the transfer function of the resonator, a hysteresis loop is observed in a few milliwatts. Although, using a ring resonator array the bandwidth reduces, however, the width of the hysteresis loop and resolution between both steady state increases.     

SOI环形光波导谐振腔双层石墨烯调制器

在片上光互连系统中,电光调制器起到将电信号调制为光信号的作用,是光互联系统中的核心部件之一。调制器的3 dB带宽决定着载波所能携带的最大信息量,是衡量调制器性能的核心参数。利用石墨烯和高Q环形谐振腔设计成具有CMOS结构的新型调制器,其集成了石墨烯的宽带吸收、载流子迁移率高等材料优势和高Q值环形光学谐振腔的光程放大的结构优势,通过理论计算,其3 dB调制带宽可以达到100 GHz。同时,基于微环谐振腔的石墨烯电光调制器结构可以方便的与光互联系统中的波分复用器相集成,从而提升片上光互联系统的集成度和降低技术复杂性。     

Frequency,clockwise to counter clockwise and even to odd lasing mode switching based on optical feedback mechanism

Analyzing modes in a micro-ring waveguide coupled with a feedback resonator reveals that with appropriate parameters, the quality factors of two neighboring ring modes vary periodically and considerably. The effect occurs upon changing the length of the feedback waveguide, whereas the two resonant frequencies remain almost invariant with length change. On the basis of this property, four methods are theoretically demonstrated to realize laser switching: two for frequency switching, one for clockwise to counterclockwise mode switching, and one for even to odd mode switching. The analysis provides methods for bistable lasing and optical logic device design.